White Plains Elementary School

Set in Anniston, Alabama, White Plains Elementary School is a mid-sized K-5 school, part of Calhoun County. It educates 530 students across grades pre-K through 4.

White Plains Elementary School is one of 17 schools operated by Calhoun County, a district that educates 7,997 students overall.

Demographically, White Plains Elementary School lists that 77% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Calhoun County's rate of about 58%.

After controlling for student poverty, White Plains Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.3%; this one delivers 62.5%.

Around the school, census data for Calhoun County shows the typical household earns roughly $55,029 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Calhoun County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,686 students), of which White Plains Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: White Plains Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around White Plains Elementary School. On composite proficiency, White Plains Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at White Plains Elementary School has held roughly steady, going from 525 students in 2018 to 530 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 84% to 77%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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